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Recension av Latin Letters from Clergymen in the Province of Scania in the Seventeenth Century

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Author

Summary, in English

Johanna Svensson's Ph.D. dissertation provides editions and studies of sixty-four letters, twenty testimonials and four other documents in Latin, among them a long poetic lament on the Peace of Roskilde in 1658. All these documents are found in a seventeenth-century notebook kept in Lund University Library. The compiler was the vicar of Barkåkra, Frans Leche (1614?-1685), or perhaps his son. The documents give valuable insights into Church life in seventeenth-century Scania: practices in connection with baptisms, weddings etc.; the use of testimonials; and the education and ideals of Danish Lutheran clergymen. The editions are reliable and provided with English translations throughout. The author has a happy ability to understand the people she writes about and present them with sympathy, without becoming sentimental or subjective.

Publishing year

2015

Language

Swedish

Pages

275-277

Publication/Series

Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift

Volume

115

Document type

Review

Publisher

Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen

Topic

  • History of Ideas
  • History
  • Specific Literatures

Keywords

  • parish clergy
  • Lutheranism
  • Barkåkra
  • Peace of Roskilde
  • poetry
  • letter-Writing
  • Latin
  • Skåne/Scania
  • seventeenth century
  • Franz Leche (1614?-1685)

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0085-2619